world. >> guest: this is a book is a collection of the second volume of my commentaries heard over tom joyner to this. tom joineries one of the leading urban radio host inside the country. his show is a show mostly of comedy. i was for 12 years the resident serious guy but every now and then i did things that were funny. so i had a list of thing is called the top ten list. a la david letterman. he probably that has trademarked. sorry. but i did my top ten his every night and i met bill gates. we had done some work together on the issue of technology and how black folk were being left out of these developments, and black people they even now are too often consumers but not producers of content. that slowly changing but not fast enough. so i met bell gates and we talk about this, and steve ballmer, the then ceo who now opens the clippers in my home town of los angeles. so i met gates and ballmer and talked to them and long story short i got microsoft to fund this program that it spearheaded to travel around the country to do some work on what we call blacks in technology. so i got to know bill

that i hosted for five years on black entertainment television, and it was the combination of tom joyner's morning and bet at night that made me a household name in black america heard in every major market in the country. at his height nine ten million listeners every morning, and i'm the resident commentator on that program and more watching every night on bet. so you got radio and tv covered in black america eventually you're going to become a household name and that's how i got exposed to my own community and then came pbs and npr and all the other stuff later on. so that's where i started to get my work done. after five years or being on bet, i had an opportunity for an exclusive interview, as you mentioned, with sarah jane olson who had been accused of trying to kill a cop in los angeles. this interview again, long story short, kind of fell into my lap. i wasn't looking for it, but everybody was chasing this interview. dan rather diane sawyer barbara walters everybody was trying to get this woman to do the interview. why? because she was a white soccer mom who was living in the twin

on air best of tavis smile on the tom joyner show. 2003. never mind. best advice i ever received. came out in 2006. autobiography. what i know for sure. author of growing up in america also came out in 2006. accountable, which we discussed making america as good as its promise, 2009. fail up, 20 lessons on building success. came out three years ago. too important to fail, saving america's boys, also came out three years ago. the rich and the rest of us, a poverty manifesto 2012. death of a king, about martin luther king's final year, came out this year. and coming out next year, or this year i guess. 2015 my journey with maya. what is that? when is that coming out? >> guest: that is first time that cover has been seen. they're tweaking it. this was a maya angelou this is me in my 20s, holding hands and we sat and talked in ghana. i was just a kid maya an gell lou, invited me on a troupe to ghana for two weeks with my friend. we all went to ghana a couple of weeks. i can't begin to tell you how being brought into her world as a young 20 something fundamentally changed my life. maya